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CARRIAGE FOOT PAD. No. 344,935. Patented July 6, 1886.

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HENRY P. BARROI/VS AND LAYVRENOE D. KNO\VLES, OF THREE RIVERS, MIGIL,ASSIGNORS TO THE INITIAL TOEPAD COMPANY, (LIMITED) CARRIAGE FOOT=PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,935, dated July 6,1886.

Application filed April 23, 1886.

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY I. BARROWS and Lawnnxcn D. KNOWLES, citizensof the United States, residing at Three Rivers, conn- 5 ty of St.Joseph, State of Michigan, have jointly invented a new and usefulCarriage Foot-Pad, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct to a footpad for carriages,provided with a letter, character, ensign, figure, or ornamentation, ora combination thereof, pressed in the materials of which the pad iscomposed, or pressed in an essential material in the con 1 str'nction,so that the letter or character, &-o., shall appear raised on theexterior surface of thefoot'pad. Itwill be understood, of course, thatthe foot-pad is used as a guard to the side of the carriage-body, wherethe step is located, so as to prevent the foot of the person enteringthe carriage from marring the body.

In the drawings forming a part ofthis specification, Figure l is a sideelevation showing the footpad and a broken side of a carriage body; Fig.2, a section on the dotted line 1 1 in Fig. 1, looking from a pointbelow said figure; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of aportion of the foot-pad, showing the materials of which it is composed.

Referring to the letters of reference marked on the drawings, Billustrates the side of the carriage-body, where the step is located.(Step not here shown.) The foot-pad here shown is provided with theordinary metal bars,a a, which bars, when the foot-pad is bent uponitself, hold it in shape to hang over the side of the body. D, in Fig.2, shows the end of the pad which hangs over the inside of the side ofthe body 13. The exterior of this class 1,0 of pads consists of enameledleather, r, and the balance of any suitable flexible material ormaterials, to give it thickness, and between which to retain the metalbars a a.

.The above details are given to show the general construction and use offoot-pads to which our invention relates.

The main essential element in our construction, aside from the ordinaryexterior, 1', is a layer of buckram, t, or its equivalent, to retain theraised characters in form.

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To illustrate the idea of a raised character or characters on thefoot-pad, we show the letter B, at c, with ornamentation around it.

Raised figures and characters have heretofore been made in foot-pads bysecuring or stitching molds of the characters beneath the enameledleather r, this plan being well illustrated by the bars a a in thedrawings.

By means of our improvement a great saving in labor and expense iseffected. Besides, our pad presents a finer exterior appearance, islighter, and less liable to become ruined by hard knocks of the foot, asthe raised pressed characters, or the portion of pad containing them,will more readily yield than it contain; ing hard molded figures.

Our process of forming the raised characters is to place the pad betweena male and a female die, which bear the desired characte1s,before theglue of the buckram has dried, or the paste or other suitable glutinousmaterial with which the buckram t is sized, and subject the pad topressure between said dies. Thus the characters are formed raised on theexterior surface, which characters, when the buckram has dried in itspressed shape, retain their raised form.

In Fig. 3, S is a layer of paper between the enameled leather or cloth'1' and the buckram t, to impart a smooth surface to the leather; 8 1otherwise the pressure between the dies would leave the imprint of thecoarse warp and woof of the buckram t in the leather or exteriorcovering, 1'.

At a is shown a back facing of cloth or canvas, to cover the moistsurface of the buck ram when being pressed, and to assist it inretaining its pressed shape. This is the plan we prefer to follow inconstructing the pad; but of course the materials may be changed, solong as the buckram or equivalent and the enameled leather or enameledcloth or other suitable exterior material are employed, and providedwith pressed, raised, fixed characters, as explained. Of course, the 5several layers shown in Fig. 3 are all pasted or glued together one uponanother, said layers being shown separated at one end of said figure, tobetter distinguish them from each other.

Having thus described our invention, what In testimony of the foregoingwe have herewe claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters untosubscribed our names in presence of two Patent, is witnesses.

A carriage foot-pad composed of different ,5 materials cemented uponeach other, the es- HENRY P. BARROWS.

sential materials being buckram and a suit- LAWRENCE D. KNOWLES.

able exterior layer provided with a letter,

figure, character, design, ornamentation, or Witnesses:

the like, or a combination thereof, pressed in WM. 0. PEALER, 10 thecemented materials, and being raised on I i M. M. DENIsON.

the exterior surface, substantially as set forth.

